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Sheila

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About Me

I'm usually being a hermit at home with Johnny. I like to be outdoors as much as possible, read books, see my ponies, play with my mutt and the cat. I'm at work all the time and I love it. I manage a therapeutic riding program and work in schools implementing behavior modification plans for special needs students.

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My Interests

My horses Pogo and Little Bit and the others I take care of, my cat Tootsie Foot Maytal and my skateboarding puppy Huckleberry Finn

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Visit my family , literature, punk, ska, reggae, 80's good stuff, lots of other music, art, photography, snails, tattoos, visiting my family, hiking, doing work that is meaningful even when it doesnt pay well, camping, nature, mental health, thriftin', being a perpetual student, lots of other stuff. Doing anything and going anywhere with my most awesome husband. ..In our next life me and LB will come back and do this. This horse is 9 years old!

I'd like to meet:

Horse folks who sport tattoos and listen to good music and good ol' fashion book worms. People who do something instead of just talking about it.

Music:

Some of this and some other stuff Pixies, Swingin' Utters,The Chameleons, Johnny Cash, Slackers, The Cure, Desmond Dekker, Interpol, Ashtray, Black Fork, Mad Sin, Blatz, Demented Are Go, Hank Williams, Depeche Mode, Dwarves, Dystopia, Filth, Resilience, Funeral Dress, Die Hunns, Arcade Fire, Patti Smith, Madness, Op Ivy, Rancid, Rudiments, Selecter,I just discovered Bluegrass . . .

Movies:

The Hours, Little Miss Sunshine, The Notebook, Life is Beautiful, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie Chaplin flix, Cocoon, Dark City, Boondock Saints, Frida, American History X, Labyrinth, Fight Club, Rashomon, Cinema Paradiso, The Ghost and the Darkness (don't laugh), Love & Anarchy, Amelie, Willow, The Princess Bride, Labyrinth, A Beautiful Mind, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Big Fish, City of Lost Children, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Trainspotting. . .

Television:

I'm very uncouth when it comes to tv. Ultimate Fighting Championships, Animal Planet, FBI Files, Cold Case Files that sort of crap.

Books:

Anything by Thoreau, Emerson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salinger (esp. Raise High The RoofBeams, Carpenters), Hemingway, Barbara Kingsolver, Virginia Woolf, Steinbeck, Zinn, Kozol, Dharma Punx, High Fidelity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Johnny Got His Gun, The Virgin Suicides, Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Life of Pi, my new favorite She's Come Undone, The Namesake, Lady Chatterly's Lover~ D.H. Lawrence, oh man way too many books to list . . . Poetry by Edna St Vincent Millay

Heroes:

Frida, Thoreau, my horse

My Blog

uneloquent lucky ramble

I've been hearing a lot of people complain about what their significent others do for enjoyment lately and it made me realize how lucky I am. Me and Johnny both have somewhat costly  and tim...
Posted by Sheila on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:33:00 PST

happy

There's nothing like coming home after a loonngg day of work to find flowers sent to you by your husband who's in Texas. What a keeper. xoxo
Posted by Sheila on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:50:00 PST

My little boy is all grown up

Huck turns one year old on Friday. The once 17lber is now a whopping 70lbs. He shakes, gives high fives, sits, stands, lays down, ocassionally rolls over, speaks, comes when called (yay!), and rears u...
Posted by Sheila on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:30:00 PST

There must be a tea god

Wonderful happenings are afoot this week. Huck was a well behaved dog for his first ever dog groomers visit.  (He's too damn big to fit in the tub and would quickly turn the backyard into a mud h...
Posted by Sheila on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:38:00 PST

the stranglehold of death

So sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Antibiotics not kicking in fast enough!! I finally caved and went into Kaiser last night after being sick for 10 days and not getting any better. Apparently I had ...
Posted by Sheila on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:02:00 PST

Recognition

Yay! I submitted Equi-Ed for the City of Santa Rosa's Merit Award and it won! Now I'm stuck finding something nice to wear and saying something on live tv. Ack. A copy of the nomination letter written...
Posted by Sheila on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:33:00 PST

pseudo rant sure to exclude me from the "in" crowd and other insignificent happenings

Erghgh. Macys. I got  a $50 gift card as a wedding present and absolutely despise the place. I tried to find jeans and discovered that the damn store is organized by brand name so I had to visit ...
Posted by Sheila on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:48:00 PST

Little Home

Somehow I ended up with 26 hours a week working full inclusion with a Kindergarten student with Asperger's (fascinating!), 6 hours a week with an early intervention program for a preschooler and 15-20...
Posted by Sheila on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:21:00 PST

All moved in

Come visit! I got bored with in the inside the house decorating and moved out to the front and back yards (switching off as the immensity of each project dawns on me). The backyard is a mess of weeds,...
Posted by Sheila on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:36:00 PST

Hendy Woods

We did a trial run of camping with Huck by going to Hendy Woods for one night. Huck had a great time playing, chewing up sticks and meeting other campers but didnt exactly understand the whole tent th...
Posted by Sheila on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:55:00 PST